“In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.” – Horace Mann

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“If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.” – Richard Martin Stern

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London

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“How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” – Anthony Robbins

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“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.” – Gian-Carlo Menotti

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“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.” – Omar Khayyam

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“Emancipate yourself from inner-slavery, for none but ourselves can free our mind.” – Bob Marley

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“Don’t waste time. Don’t waste it in idleness; don’t waste it in regretting the time already wasted; don’t waste it in resolutions a thousand times repeated, never to be carried out. Don’t waste your time. Use all of it. Sleep, work, rest, think.” – Arthur Brisbane

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“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.” – Elbert Hubbard

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“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

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“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.” – William S Halsey

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“Advice is not disliked because it is advice, but because so few people know how to give it.” – Leigh Hunt

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“Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.” – Samuel Johnson

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“A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.” – Unknown

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“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A Shedd

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“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

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“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope

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“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” – William Arthur Ward

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“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.” – Jimmy Carter

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“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” – Alexander Graham Bell

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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” – Channing Pollock

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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” Charles De Gaulle

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“Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” William Somerset Maugham

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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.” – Ghandi

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“Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.” – Samuel Johnson

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“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” Anthony (Tony) Robbins

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“Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.” Burt Lawlor

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“Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

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“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.” – John Christian Bovee

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“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

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“When we know that even one person loves us unconditionally, we feel a connection to everyone else. We feel included in the family of all mankind.” – Greg Baer

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“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” – Joan Didion

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“In the last several years, while meeting and spending time with people who have become inordinately successful, I have observed several common traits among them. Two of those traits stand out. One is they have a calling, which they have discovered and are implementing. The other is they have made mountains of mistakes in the process of becoming ‘successful.’ THE GLEAMING MOUNTAIN OF SUCCESS IS ACTUALLY A PILE OF TRASH – a pile of the mistakes we have made. The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that BY DISCOVERING AND IMPLEMENTING A LIFE CALLING, THE SUCCESSFUL STAND ON THEIR PILE OF TRASH, while the troubled sit under theirs.” – Dave Ramsey

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“Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.” – Jack Canfield

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“Don’t be one of those people who won’t accept new truth. Open your mind to novel ideas. But don’t just accept them because they’re novel, or because they’re convenient, or because everybody’s doing it. Open your mind, and weigh new ideas carefully.” – Shaun Roundy

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“The pinnacle of productivity is to never work; always play.” – Marianne Williamson

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“Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.” – Van Wyck Brooks

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